The 2012 Telstra-TJA Christopher Newell Prize winners The Christopher Newell Prize recognises and commemorates the research and commitment of the late Revd Canon Dr Christopher Newell AM who was a strong advocate of the the needs of people with disabilities and their rights to access telecommunications during the 1990s and up until his passing in [...]
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Telstra-TJA Christopher Newell Awards 2012 Announced
Posted in Accessibility, Assistive Technologies, Disability Studies, Undergraduate Research on May 22, 2012 | 1 Comment »
ICAN and Mentoring Statewide Conference 2010
Posted in Teaching and Learning, Uncategorized, Undergraduate Research on August 28, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I presented an invited paper at the ICAN and Mentoring statewide conference 2010: ‘Youth development: everybody’s business’ on the 26th August 2010. The focus of my paper was on strategies for engaging students through creativity, innovation and ethics in practice-led research within the media studies curriculum. The presentation drew on a case-study based on a [...]
ASCILITE 2009 Presentations
Posted in 3D Virtual Worlds, Teaching and Learning, Uncategorized, Undergraduate Research, tagged 3D Virtual Worlds, disability, intermediality, media arts, performance, practice led research, service learning, Undergraduate Research on December 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The ASCILITE 2009 conference was held at the University of Auckland from the 6-9th November, 2009. The conference theme “Same places, different spaces” generated many papers focusing on topics such as blended learning, virtual learning environments, social spaces, mobile and work spaces: http://www.ascilite.org.au/conferences/auckland09/?m=Programme&s=Themes I presented a paper based on trials of the use of the [...]
Latest interview on Radio 5RPH about experiential learning and media arts students at UniSA
Posted in 3D Virtual Worlds, service learning, Teaching and Learning, Uncategorized, Undergraduate Research, Web 2.0, tagged 3D Virtual Worlds, media arts, service learning, Teaching and Learning, teaching and research nexus on September 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
In my August segment on Radio 5RPH I spoke about the experiential learning our Web design students are undertaking in which they are creating accessible websites for organisations and volunteer groups. I spoke in particular about one of my courses (Accessible Interactive Media) in which the students are creating accessible sites for disability and health [...]
